Artifact Details

Title

Vajapey, Sridhar oral history

Catalog Number

102738106

Type

Document

Description

Sridhar Vajapey attended the University of Houston. He then went to work at Texas Instruments for 15 years where he focused mainly on the architecture, design, and marketing of TI’s microcontroller family. In this oral history, he describes the evolution of the microcontroller business at TI and explains why it was very successful in the automotive market, taking market share from Motorola and other competitors.

In particular he discussed the unique aspects of the TMS370 family, and the steps taken to make it so successful in the automotive marketplace.

After TI, he joined Sun Microsystems which later was bought by Oracle. There in continued to focus on the design and manufacturing of microprocessors, but in this case on the entreprise level SPARC architecture.

Date

2016-03-10

Contributor

Sakamoto, Paul, interviewer; videographer

Vajapey, Sridhar, interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

San Jose, CA

Extent

15 p.

Format

PDF

Subject

Sun Microsystems; Oracle; Texas Instruments Incorporated; TMS7000 Series (Computer); SPARC; Junkins, Jerry; Templeton, Rich

Collection Title

CHM oral history collection

Credit